CIGNA and Catch 22

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

"That's some catch, that catch-22," he observed.

"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

CIGNA has its own Catch 22. Leaving aside a lot of extraneous, distracting, and basically irrelevant stuff, CIGNA's case against Judi is that it doesn't believe her doctor's statement that Judi is not able to work. The only way to prove that she can't work is to try to. If she tried to work and then got sick, she would have already lost her coverage by CIGNA anyway because she would no longer be eligible because she is working! It's as beautiful (and obscene) as Catch 22.

Tim